Between 2025 and 2027, 13 partners from the Euregio will work together to bring the Roman past to life. Via Via brings Roman history to life at 9 locations in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. Visitors will discover Roman attractions along the route. The project aims to offer visitors a unique journey through history, across national and language borders.
To attract, train and retain talent for the Medtech sector (medical technology) in Parkstad, companies from this sector are now working together with educational institutions and the municipalities of Heerlen and Kerkrade. This collaboration is called Medlands and aims to create 3,000 new jobs around 2030. The collaboration focuses on image, education, the labor market and infrastructure.
Alderman Marco Peters officially opened the renewed 30-kilometer zone on the Ganzeweide. He did this together with Stan Peters, the chairman of the business association, and a number of residents, by laying the last paving stones.
Alderman Marco Peters (Management and Maintenance) has awarded the annual thank you for the Friends of Heerlen Schoon to a number of volunteers of this initiative. In Heerlerheide they go out a few times a month to clean up litter. All other volunteers in the city also received the present for their efforts in the past year.
The municipality of Heerlen is going into the neighbourhoods to ask residents where they see room for housing. For example, is there a place in the neighbourhood, close to amenities, where housing is needed? We are opening an email address for ideas. At woningbouw@heerlen.nl people can immediately submit suggestions for suitable development locations in their neighbourhood.
This morning the mayor signed Roel Wever and project leader CIV Safety of the VISTA College in the Town Hall in Heerlen a covenant as the starting signal for Crimelabs. Crimelabs is a project in which we actively involve students in the development of policy to combat youth crime in Heerlen-Noord.
Heerlen is taking an important step towards a sustainable future. The board of mayor and aldermen of the municipality of Heerlen has decided to establish the Circular Agenda 1.0 and associated Circular Roadmaps. With this, the municipality is fulfilling its ambition to be 100% circular by 2050 and to use 50% less primary raw materials by 2030.
Today, the Heerlen council has adopted its draft environmental vision: an overarching vision for a liveable, social and sustainable Heerlen living environment in 2050. The draft environmental vision was created through the participation of hundreds of residents and partners, an administrative vision sketch by the council, a council session, and regional cooperation. The draft environmental vision will be available for inspection from January 2025.
